The Mummy's Hand

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why does tcm hafta waste our time with stinkers like that? what an excruciating experience seeing guys like cecil kellaway and george zucco wasted in such a lame movie. 35 minutes into it I dreamt of how much I would enjoy seeing kharis strangulate...slowly...that infuriatingly awful comic relief babe but then I started hoping that kharis would shove poopsie down his throat just to put an end to NYC terminology..

and what was defiled was the recycled music from son of Frankenstein.

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why does tcm hafta waste our time with stinkers like that? what an excruciating experience seeing guys like cecil kellaway and george zucco wasted in such a lame movie. 35 minutes into it I dreamt of how much I would enjoy seeing kharis strangulate...slowly...that infuriatingly awful comic relief babe but then I started hoping that kharis would shove poopsie down his throat just to put an end to his NYC references.

And yet you watched it. You lost your monster cred with me if you haven't seen any of the old Universal 1940's era Mummy movies before tonight, pal. ?

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Is it any wonder you didn't know what happened? The ending was cut off! Something very weird took place mid scene and the watch TCM logo came on.

I think the Mummy had a Hand in it! ?

A few years ago this month (2011, I think) TCM last aired THE MUMMY'S HAND. It too was cut short at the end and the event was discussed on these boards.
Evidently the same flawed copy was resurrected for tonights airing.

I just checked it out on WATCH TCM ON-DEMAND and Ben cuts in before the actual movie is over.
IMDB lists a 67 min run time. Subtracting Ben's intro & outro, this TCM version ran 65.46 min, short by approx. 1.14 min.
TCM has done this before, most frequently (and with far more seriously truncated offenders) occurring with their ON-DEMAND streams.
Sad, shoddy and "cut" for all TCM viewers this time, but thankfully it still rarely occurs during their "live" broadcasts.

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It's been awhile since I've seen The Mummy's Curse, but I did record it for later viewing. I caught a few minutes, notably the scene where poor Bill Farnum, once a $100,000-a-year early silent star, gets rolled out for a few lines, then is offed by Kharis.

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and this crap didn't even have the guts to make kharis actually dead. all these thousands of years were told that zucco's predecessors keep him alive by the light of a full moon with tana leave fluid. some monster.

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I think THE MUMMY'S HAND is a top-grade adventure programmer. Great cast, very capable direction and editing, superb music (much of it recycled - including the "raising the monster" cue from SON OF FRANKENSTEIN slowed down and used as Kharis' murder motif). Dick and Peggy were a great couple on screen and they reunited in HORROR ISLAND - another enjoyable quickie.

And, frankly, I prefer my mummies wrapped in ragged cloth and stalking with menace rather than being the all-powerful CGI spirits of recent years.

PS I recently picked up a print of GREEN HELL, for which the temple idol in THE MUMMY'S HAND was originally constructed.